AI Security FDE Lead & Production Architect

Accenture; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 366,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with client teams, delivering secure, governed, and resilient AI deployments. You will own security outcomes, build AI-powered tooling, and collaborate with client security and engineering groups to reduce risk in real-world environments.

The role emphasizes hands-on security engineering, architecture leadership, and governance across cloud platforms, with travel as required to support engagements.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of engineering experience in production environments with a cybersecurity discipline depth in at least one area.
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in a production environment.
• Minimum 8 years of demonstrated end-to-end security delivery ownership experience in a client-embedded or production environment.
• Minimum 8 years working with cloud platform security fundamentals (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (minimum 12 years).

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments across complex client environments.
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools as the primary build environment.
• Own AI-specific threat surface management at programme scale.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack.
• Lead AI governance framework implementation per EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF.
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy for client leadership.
• Define and publish reusable security patterns and accelerators.
• Lead architecture design sessions and threat modeling workshops.
• Provide cyber security domain expertise in at least one discipline.
• Support proposal and client engagement activities.

Skills

AI security architecture

Threat modeling

Security engineering

Agentic AI tooling

Cloud security

Security governance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

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GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with client teams, delivering secure, governed, and resilient AI deployments. You will own security outcomes, build AI-powered tooling, and collaborate with client security and engineering groups to reduce risk in real-world environments.

The role emphasizes hands-on security engineering, architecture leadership, and governance across cloud platforms, with travel as required to support engagements.